{"id":3653,"date":"2016-07-27T01:22:15","date_gmt":"2016-07-26T16:22:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.backgammonexam.com\/?p=3653"},"modified":"2016-07-29T08:05:53","modified_gmt":"2016-07-28T23:05:53","slug":"announce-bwcmc2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.backgammonexam.com\/en\/article\/announce-bwcmc2016\/","title":{"rendered":"(Announcement) 6th Proficiency Test &#8211; Round 4 @ 41st World Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are happy to announce that Masayuki \u201cMochy\u201d Mochizuki (#1 Giant of Backgammon 2015-2016) will be presenting the 6th backgammon proficiency test starting at 12:00 pm on Thursday, July 28th \u2013 the third day of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bwcmc.com\/index.php\" target=\"_blank\">the 41st Backgammon World Championship<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It is scheduled as follows:<\/p>\n<p>12:00 PM &#8211; 1:00 PM, Thursday, July 28th<br \/>\nBackgammon Proficiency Exam &#8211; Exam Given<\/p>\n<p>12:00 PM &#8211; 1:00 PM, Friday, July 29th<br \/>\nBackgammon Proficiency Exam &#8211; Lecture &#038; Review<\/p>\n<p>As you know, the Backgammon World Championship is one of the most famous and prestigious backgammon events in the world, and it is scheduled to be held from Tuesday, July 26th through Sunday, July 31st at the Fairmont Hotel in Monte Carlo, Monaco.<br \/>\n(Details at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bwcmc.com\/schedule.php\">https:\/\/www.bwcmc.com\/schedule.php<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>Fifty high-quality and well-balanced questions are supervised by Mochy and Michihito \u201cMichy\u201d Kageyama (#2 Giant 2015-2016) for the test. Thus, it is a worthy challenge for players at the intermediate and advanced levels.<br \/>\n(Details at <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.backgammonexam.com\/en\/about\/\">https:\/\/blog.backgammonexam.com\/en\/about\/<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>Until now, the 6th version of our test has been hold only at Ouisen (Tokyo, Japan), Chicago Open (Chicago, US) and Capital Classic Championships (Washington, US). So, it will be the first time for most of European players to see it.<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/6th_poster_preview_bwcmc2016.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"poster\" width=\"400\" style=\"max-width: 100%; height: auto; width \/***\/:auto;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>By the way, we provide a guide for an estimation of an approximate backgammon skill level as follows. Of course, it varies among players, please use just as a reference.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>More than 45 correct answers &#8230; World champion class<\/li>\n<li>More than 40 correct answers &#8230; National champion class<\/li>\n<li>More than 35 correct answers &#8230; Local champion class<\/li>\n<li>More than 30 correct answers &#8230; Advanced class <\/li>\n<li>More than 20 correct answers &#8230; Intermediate class<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You too, by all means please do challenge yourself to it.<br \/>\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are happy to announce that Masayuki \u201cMochy\u201d Mochizuki (#1 Giant of Backgammon 2015-2016) will be presenting the 6th backgammon proficiency test starting at 12:00 pm on Thursday, July 28th \u2013 the third day of the 41st Backgammon World Championship. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.backgammonexam.com\/en\/article\/announce-bwcmc2016\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[22,1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.backgammonexam.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3653"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.backgammonexam.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.backgammonexam.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.backgammonexam.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.backgammonexam.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3653"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/blog.backgammonexam.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3663,"href":"https:\/\/blog.backgammonexam.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3653\/revisions\/3663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.backgammonexam.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.backgammonexam.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.backgammonexam.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}